Chevron Reports Fourth Quarter 2025 Results

“2025 was a year of significant achievement. We successfully integrated Hess, started-up major projects, delivered record production and reorganized our business. This resulted in industry-leading free cash flow growth and superior shareholder returns, despite declining oil prices,” said Mike Wirth, Chevron’s chairman and chief executive officer.

After integrating Hess Corporation (Hess), the company quickly delivered on its initial $1 billion synergy target. In Kazakhstan, the company’s 50 percent owned affiliate, Tengizchevroil (TCO), started up the Future Growth Project. In the U.S., several major projects achieved first oil in the Gulf of America, and the Permian Basin delivered on its production target of 1 million barrels of oil equivalent per day. The company also continued to advance new energies opportunities in power, lithium and hydrogen and achieved structural cost reductions of $1.5 billion in 2025. This enabled the company to grow its production to record levels and generate the highest cash flow from operations in the company’s history at similar commodity prices, and positions the company to increase its annual dividend payout per share for the 39th consecutive year.

As developments progress in Venezuela, Chevron continues to engage with the U.S. and Venezuelan governments to advance shared energy goals. “We have been a part of Venezuela’s past for more than a century. We remain committed to its present. And we stand ready to help it build a better future while strengthening U.S. energy and regional security,” Wirth concluded.

Financial Highlights

• Reported earnings decreased in 2025 compared to last year primarily due to lower crude oil prices, lower affiliate earnings and unfavorable foreign currency effects, partly offset by higher margins on refined product sales, impact from higher sales volumes and lower severance charges.
• Worldwide and U.S. net oil-equivalent production set annual records. For 2025, the Hess acquisition contributed 261 MBOED, while legacy Chevron operations added another 124 MBOED, driven by growth in the Permian Basin and project ramp-ups at TCO and in the Gulf of America.
• Year-end 2025 proved reserves were approximately 10.6 billion barrels of net oil-equivalent, subject to final review. The largest additions were from the acquisition of Hess and extensions and discoveries in shale and tight assets in the Permian Basin, and project approvals in Australia and Guyana. The one-year reserve replacement ratio was 158 percent.
• Capex in 2025 was higher than last year largely due to spend on legacy Hess assets post-acquisition and increased investments in U.S. data center power solutions more than offsetting lower spend in downstream. Affiliate capex was down primarily due to lower spend at TCO.
• Cash flow from operations in 2025 was higher than a year ago as higher cash distributions from TCO and contributions from legacy Hess assets more than offset the impact of lower commodity prices. Adjusted free cash flow includes asset sale proceeds of $1.8 billion and net loan repayments from equity affiliates of $0.8 billion.
• The company returned $27.1 billion of cash to shareholders during the year, including share repurchases of $12.1 billion, dividends of $12.8 billion, and $2.2 billion of Hess share purchases in early 2025.
• The company’s Board of Directors declared a 4 percent increase in the quarterly dividend to one dollar and seventy-eight cents ($1.78) per share, payable March 10, 2026, to all holders of common stock as shown on the transfer records of the corporation at the close of business on February 17, 2026.

Business Highlights and Milestones

• Completed the acquisition of Hess, creating a combined company with a premier upstream portfolio, and achieved the initial run-rate synergy target of $1 billion.
• Started production at the Future Growth Project and ramped up total production to around 1 million BOE per day at TCO in Kazakhstan.
• Started production from new wells and ramped up production at the Anchor, Ballymore, Stampede, and Whale fields in the deepwater Gulf of America.
• Achieved first oil at Yellowtail, the fourth development, and reached final investment decision on Hammerhead, the seventh development, in Guyana’s offshore Stabroek block.
• Achieved first oil from South N’dola platform in Angola leveraging existing infrastructure.
• Completed the sale of the company’s interest in the Republic of Congo, the Malaysia-Thailand joint development area, certain non-operated U.S. midstream pipelines and facilities, and a portion of its interest in certain gas assets in East Texas.
• Discovered hydrocarbons at several infrastructure-enabled prospects, including the non-operated Far South well in the deepwater Gulf of America, and at Awodi-07, one of three consecutive discoveries in Nigeria since late 2024.
• Secured exploration blocks in Brazil, Egypt, Guinea-Bissau, the Gulf of America, Namibia, Peru and Suriname, increasing the company’s exploration acreage position by over 50 percent compared to 2023.
• Reached final investment decision on the Leviathan Gas Expansion project that is expected to increase Leviathan's production capacity to 2.1 billion cubic feet per day in Israel.
• Approved backfill development to connect the Geryon and Eurytion offshore fields to Gorgon’s existing infrastructure, enabling the long-term supply of domestic gas in Western Australia and liquefied natural gas in Asia.
• Achieved the highest U.S. refinery throughput in 20 years, with fewer refineries, due to reliable operations and efficiency improvements.
• Started production from the Geismar renewable diesel plant in Louisiana after completing an expansion project that increased plant capacity from 7,000 to 22,000 barrels per day.
• Announced plans to provide power solutions to support U.S. data center growth with the first project under development in West Texas.
• Entered U.S. lithium sector and acquired approximately 135,000 net acres in the Smackover Formation in Northeast Texas and Southwest Arkansas for direct lithium extraction.
• Streamlined the organization and achieved $1.5 billion of cost reductions, as part of a program that aims to reduce structural costs by $3-4 billion by the end of 2026.

Segment Highlights

• U.S. upstream earnings were lower than the year-ago period primarily due to lower liquids realizations, partly offset by the impact of higher sales volumes and the absence of prior year severance charges.
• U.S. net oil-equivalent production during the quarter was up 409,000 barrels per day from the year-ago period primarily due to the acquisition of Hess and higher production in the Gulf of America following the start-up of major deepwater projects, and growth in the Permian Basin.

• International upstream earnings were lower than a year ago primarily due to unfavorable foreign currency effects largely in Australia, lower affiliate earnings, and lower realizations, partly offset by earnings from legacy Hess, primarily Guyana, and lower operating expenses in part due to the absence of prior-year severance charges.
• Net oil-equivalent production during the quarter was up 286,000 barrels per day from the year-ago period primarily due to the acquisition of Hess and higher production at TCO, partly offset by impacts from asset sales in Canada and the Republic of Congo.

• U.S. downstream earnings were higher than the year-ago period primarily due to lower operating expenses, in part due to the absence of prior-year severance charges, higher margins on refined product sales, and lower impairments.
• Refinery crude unit inputs increased 14 percent from the year-ago period primarily due to the continued ramp-up of the Light Tight Oil project along with higher reliability at the Pasadena, Texas refinery.
• Refined product sales increased 3 percent compared to the year-ago period due to higher demand for jet fuel.

• International downstream earnings were higher than the year-ago period primarily due to higher margins on refined product sales and the absence of prior-year impairments, partially offset by less favorable foreign currency effects.
• Refinery crude unit inputs increased 2 percent from the year-ago period primarily due to lower turnaround activity at our affiliate refinery in South Korea.
• Refined product sales decreased 1 percent from the year-ago period.

• All Other consists of worldwide cash management and debt financing activities, corporate administrative functions, insurance operations, real estate activities, and technology companies.
• Net charges increased compared to a year ago primarily due to higher corporate tax costs, interest expense, and pension settlement costs, partly offset by the absence of prior-year severance charges.

Chevron is one of the world’s leading integrated energy companies. We believe affordable, reliable and ever-cleaner energy is essential to enabling human progress. Chevron produces crude oil and natural gas; manufactures transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals and additives; and develops technologies that enhance our business and the industry. We aim to grow our oil and gas business, lower the carbon intensity of our operations, and grow new energies businesses. More information about Chevron is available at www.chevron.com.

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